Hello Everyone! My name is Tommie Gillam, I am new to PBS and to this list. I have been following everyone's posts with great interest and thought I should stop by and introduce myself. I live in the Arkansas Ozarks on 40 acres "back in the woods", our nearest neighbor is 1 mile away. I have a wide range of horticultural interests, but the one that has lead me here is a growing interest in South African bulbs. My favorites at this time are Ledebouria, Drimiopsis and Lachenalia, although they are always changing as I learn more about different genera. I will admit that having been a freckle-faced child I have a certain weakness for anything with spotted foilage. We too have been dealing with this "white' winter. We have had more snow in the last 2 weeks than in the last 5 years combined. During last winter's ice storm we were without power for 13 days, after 4 1/2 days of hard work, my husband and our neighbor were finally able to cut all the downed trees out of the 2 mile stretch to the main highway and we promptly bought a generator. We have kerosene lights, wood heat and a gravity water system but the main purpose of the generator is to provide electricty to the fans that circulate warm air into the attached passive-solar greenhouse, I have my priorities;) Stay warm everyone! Tommie